All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
CLARENCE DARROWIt is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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